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The GSE Public-Private Hybrid Model Flunks Again: This Time It’s the Federal Home Loan Bank System (Part 2)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

It is considered one of America’s government- sponsored enterprises (GSEs), i.e., public-private hybrid corporations created by Congress and authorized to engage only in a narrowly-tailored set of activities. trillion of assets) and are the most well-known and studied GSEs. 6 This was totally inconsistent with the original design.

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Freddie Mac’s Second Mortgage Pilot: Should the Taxpayer Subsidize Equity Extraction Lending?

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

Introduction In April, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) officially solicited public comment on a proposal from Freddie Mac, one of the two large government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) it oversees, to begin a pilot program to finance closed-end second (CES) mortgages. This is examined below in more detail.

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The GSEs and the Second Trump Administration: Ten Possible Mortgage Program and Policy Changes to Expect (Part 2 of 2)

The Stoop (NYU Furman Center)

The second Trump administration (Trump II) has begun to focus on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the two government-sponsored enterprises (GSEs) that together finance about half of the nearly $13 trillion in first-lien single-family mortgages in the U.S. Reform or eliminate specific targeted credit access programs (e.g.,

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